Wouldn’t that just mean that instead of doing matches on Raw/Smackdown or Main Event/Superstars, a performer would do Raw/Main Event or Smackdown/Superstars? Seems like it wouldn’t affect the workload at all. If anything they should cut back on house shows and maybe add an off-season but that’s money out of everyone’s pockets.

@Kissing Stacy Keibler I honestly don’t know why Main Event and Superstars are still around. I mean, I know they’re there for international syndication deals, but I can’t imagine the WWE could find some other content to syndicate. Canceling those two wouldn’t affect the big stars that rarely wrestle on them, but it would save the live crowds from burning out before Raw/Smackdown.

@6forSorrow6 It’s good for the wrestlers who don’t get on the A shows or do so very sporadically. Even if not that many people are watching and nothing ever matters in terms of angle or character development, it’s still good to log in on-camera time. Plus Raw has pretty much always had content taped for other shows, from the original Superstars and Heat to the current shows, so I don’t think they’re the cause of fan burnout (and if you think burnout today is bad, I remember going to a taping in Richmond, the Shawn Michaels fainting episode, in which we sat through four hour-long Raws, a Superstars, *and* a dark main event. That was a Bataan Death Match. Er, March)

So the currently available female heels are: Charlotte (champion, thus untouchable), Dana (worked one singles match since early October), Summer (hasn’t worked at all since the European tour but says she’s just not being booked) and Eva Marie (technically still a face on main roster TV). I sense Paige is about to be called into another private meeting.

Every source maintains Sasha’s winning the title at Summerslam so is being kept in cold storage until after Battleground. Alicia’s disappeared, but it is about time for her annual inexplicable one-month push. Lana I’d guess is going to be more of a special occasion wrestler. I can see Natalya turning heel in the medium term but that’s no help for now. Maybe they do go with Eva to keep the EnD thing going, in which case may Becky’s workrate god go with her.

(Apologies if this ends up being a double post).
My understanding is that wrestlers work house/live/PPVs Fri/Sat/Sun and then SS/Raw on Mon and ME/Smackdown on Tues. NXT tapes about twice a month on a Weds/Thurs/or Fri. I don’t see how cutting 2.5% of a work schedule (one PPV every two months) helps much. It think five days a week is just too much for wrestlers who aren’t jacked up on PEDs but cutting that means less money for the performers so I don’t know what the solution is.

That sucks! I can’t think of anyone in the last few years who put in more effort to revive a dead in the water career than Emma. Between the booking of her on the main roster and the arrest and firing/not fired incident it seemed like she was a perennial release watch candidate. She really committed to a new character and her already solid ring work got even better. A shame this happened just as she was getting a push.